"The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any."
“The point of propaganda is not to make people believe it. It is to foster cynicism so that we don’t know what to believe and come to believe that nothing is true, no facts are reliable, and the world is simply a battlefield for partisan ideas. In such a world, truth retreats behind success as the value to be sought. What matters is victory, no matter the cost. Arendt understood that when factual truths are denied and substituted for by lies, the result is
"an absolute refusal to believe in the truth of anything, no matter how well this truth may be established." Such cynicism is the true goal of totalitarians.” Hannah Arendt
"The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any."
“The point of propaganda is not to make people believe it. It is to foster cynicism so that we don’t know what to believe and come to believe that nothing is true, no facts are reliable, and the world is simply a battlefield for partisan ideas. In such a world, truth retreats behind success as the value to be sought. What matters is victory, no matter the cost. Arendt understood that when factual truths are denied and substituted for by lies, the result is
"an absolute refusal to believe in the truth of anything, no matter how well this truth may be established." Such cynicism is the true goal of totalitarians.” Hannah Arendt